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Comment by tdavis | Hacker News Reader

Two biggest problems with this:

1. The interface is awful and terribly slow. I don't feel like you can have filtering as a "coming soon" feature when the entire service is based around filtering. Also, I don't know what sort of awful JS is used to power the site but it really needs to go. It feels extremely sluggish (which after browsing Drew's other sites seems to be a theme).

2. It's built entirely on trust and very limited amounts of information. I feel like one could waste a lot of time contacting and vetting prospective collaborators.

I really want to like services like this; finding fellow designers/developers is difficult whether you have a project in mind or not and is really stodgy outside the comfort of referrals. Sadly, this isn't looking like a great fix to the problem (though it is a start).

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Relevant to this, I got this upon loading the site.

    A script on this page may be busy, or it may have stopped responding. You can stop the script now, open the script in the debugger, or let the script continue.

    Script: http://www.builditwith.me/js/jquery.js:19

While sexy, it is extremely sluggish here as well. :/

Ass-slow for me as well. I thought it was broken because none of my clicks did anything. But it was just slow.

The secretly not-working search was really annoying.

"App ideas" - wow that's just annoying, but is so because you must know by now about how HN feels about ideas.

Overall good start, and a good problem to tackle but I don't realistically see how this would be any different from those "hire a freelancer" type sites. Don't mistake that for me "hating", rather it would just seem to me that the more users using your site, the more noise you are going to have to deal with. Whether that be "biz-devs" with million dollar ideas or designers straight outta devry, or lowball $20hr programmers.

I actually liked the interface except for the header part(specifically the purple-ish colors) and the font rendering (just a disaster). But you're right, it is snail-like slow when loading. Initially I thought it was because it's loading a bunch of users' info and thumbnails (I can scroll down for quite a while), but some people here are saying it loads fine for them, so it might be browser specific. It's also sort of "glitchy." Nonetheless, it's a neat idea.

Same here. Although the interface looks nice, it caused my system to hang for a few seconds. This is a high-end PC running Firefox 3.5.5 on ArchLinux. You need to fix this.

Add filtering or at least some pagination.

It runs pretty quickly in Firefox 3.5, but the font rendering is horrific:

http://i.imgur.com/HXFke.jpg

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